I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Desire for power Power Desire Human nature

Author

Thomas Hobbes

Source

Leviathan

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1651 1650s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651, pt. 1, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 11.

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Curiosity...is a Lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Leviathan
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
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Time
1651 1650s 17th century
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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. 1651, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Blaise Pascal

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Things get worse

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Blaise Pascal
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
French
Time
1656 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Pascal, Blaise [published as Louis de Montalte]. "February 25, 1656." Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Escrites [The Provincial Letters]. 1657, letter 4.

Another quote about Human nature

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Shit rolls downhill Human nature
Speaker
Heathcliff

Author

Emily Brontë
Source
Wuthering Heights
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
English
Time
1847 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, published as Ellis Bell. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Revolution French Revolution

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Edmund Burke
Source
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Medium
Pamphlet
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.